Ahmed Hamdi Pasha was a Kurdish Ottoman minister of the Marine, Secretary General of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan from 1918-1920 and a General officer of the Ottoman army.
[1] A graduate of the Ottoman military academy,[1] he rose to the rank of divisional general and chief of general staff.
[1] He was forced into early retirement by the Committee of Union and Progress, but continued to oppose them politically.
[1] British government documents describe Hamdi as one of the leading lights of the Kurdish movement.
[2] Hamdi was in continuous contact with Sir Horace Rumbold, 9th Baronet regarding the memorandums of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan including the prospect of an independent Kurdistan as a barrier to Bolsheviks progression into Mesopotamia.